Thread: 1.20 destroyed the game again ?

Originally Posted by Vili

Arc isn't useless. Actually it is now one of the most useful jobs. Archer went from useless in Ifrit to wanted. My only gripe is Combo action animation. I made a new term in my LS, called Combo Lag. I can finish my three way combo, but I'm still doing the animations 3-4 seconds later. So other than Combo lag, the new battle system, is awesome. Much better than Battle Regimens, remember those? lol
As far as learning combos, maybe I just grasp complex things better than others, but at lvl 50 Arc, when they made combos, all I had to do was read the description to figure out the order in which to do them, then another hour of tweaking the placement on my action bar. Combos are not hard.

That Combo Lag of yours has to do with action queue. If you hit the next WS before the animation for the current one is finished, the hit will go off but the animation will be queued to go next.

One trick is to use a short animation skill right away after you queue the nest WS, and before the current WS animation is completely finished. It tends to force a skip on the animation of the next WS and shows the short animation skill straight away.

ie. Use Piercing Shot > Foeseeker > (while Foeseeker animation is just starting) Wide Volley > (before the Foeseeker animation ends) Light Shot

You end up seeing animations for Piercing Shot and Foeseeker, but then you see the Light Shot animation right as Foeseeker ends, skipping the Wide Volley animation entirely although the damage is done.

I do this currently to maximize DPS, but this should no longer be much of an issue on the new servers come 2.0.

Originally Posted by NoctisUmbra

That Combo Lag of yours has to do with action queue. If you hit the next WS before the animation for the current one is finished, the hit will go off but the animation will be queued to go next.

One trick is to use a short animation skill right away after you queue the nest WS, and before the current WS animation is completely finished. It tends to force a skip on the animation of the next WS and shows the short animation skill straight away.

ie. Use Piercing Shot > Foeseeker > (while Foeseeker animation is just starting) Wide Volley > (before the Foeseeker animation ends) Light Shot

You end up seeing animations for Piercing Shot and Foeseeker, but then you see the Light Shot animation right as Foeseeker ends, skipping the Wide Volley animation entirely although the damage is done.

I do this currently to maximize DPS, but this should no longer be much of an issue on the new servers come 2.0.

Gloom Arrow?

Originally Posted by Murugan

Gloom Arrow?

lol did I mess up the starting WS names? For some reason I remember it as Heavy Shot > Gloom Arrow > Bloodletter. Heavy and Piercing are basically identical lol I get confuzzled. The point remains though :P